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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its biggest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, Nvidia, and others — Dutch chip equipment maker backs French artificial intelligence champion as US-China tensions rock tech industry
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
| Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law: |
A US federal judge postpones Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes to force on authors — The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC's proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking …
More: Engadget, PCMag, Publishers Weekly, Entrepreneur, Plagiarism Today, Spyglass, Chat GPT Is Eating the World, Implicator.ai, KnowTechie, Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, Associated Press, Thurrott, and Tech Xplore
Bluesky: @technollama, @mariabustillos.com, @profciara, @eidyngray.scot, @chup.blakereid.org, @jasonsanford, @jasonsanford, @jasonsanford, @darthbluesky, and @mmasnick. Mastodon: @mwl@io.mwl.io. Forums: r/technology
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and LG partner to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to cars that use LG's Automotive Content Platform, including Kia's EV3, EV4, EV5, and Sportage in Europe — You'll soon be able to stream Xbox cloud games to cars that use LG's Automotive Content Platform, like Kia's EV3.
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| Associated Press: |
Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state — BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …
More: Telegraph, Implicator.ai, and WinBuzzer
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Sources: US Cyber Command and the NSA will retain a single leader after the Trump administration found that breaking up the arrangement would be very complex — The Trump administration has abandoned any intention of breaking up the joint leadership of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency …
Bluesky: @martinmatishak
| Ariba Shahid / Reuters: |
Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China — Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …
More: Wired, Amnesty International, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/China, r/pakistan, r/chutyapa, r/cybersecurity, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around “startup squads” of 10 to 15 staff to better compete; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ subscribers — Snap is breaking itself apart and rebuilding from within. In a new company letter, CEO Evan Spiegel just announced …
More: Snap Newsroom, Business Insider, The Information, and Benzinga
X: @joshm, @johnwilson, and @yoda
LinkedIn: Mary Ann Belliveau and Evan Spiegel
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @wilkos
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and coming to Pro users in the coming weeks — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. — File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users.| Financial Times: |
Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt the travel agent business model and upend the $1.6T travel market — Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb face threat of a technology that could bypass them as people make travel arrangements
More: The New Stack and PYMNTS.com
| Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times: |
Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries — Washington terminates agreements with European countries to fight disinformation from Russia, China and Iran
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Forums: r/BuyFromEU and r/neoliberal
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft mandates staff to return to the office three days per week, starting in late February 2026 for those who live within 50 miles of its Redmond HQ — Three days in the office will soon be the new norm for Microsoft employees. … It's official, Microsoft is asking employees to return to the office three days per week.| Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom — Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire …
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| New York Times: |
Nvidia is attacking GOP-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, an unconventional lobbying blitz over what it calls left-wing paranoia from “AI doomers” — Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Nasdaq agrees to buy $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of Gemini's IPO this week — Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's executives fear mounting political scrutiny in California could stymie for-profit plans and have discussed leaving the state as a last resort — Startup's leaders have discussed last-ditch prospect of leaving California if regulators complicate transition to for-profit company
More: TechCrunch, Proactive, The Decoder, New York Times, Benzinga, and NewsMax.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX, a new chip system designed for AI tasks like video generation and software creation, set to launch at the end of 2026 — Nvidia Corp., whose chips and systems are at the heart of the artificial intelligence computing boom, said it plans to offer a new product designed … | Gopal Sharma / Reuters: |
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after 19 people were killed and 100+ were injured in anti-corruption protests that were triggered by the ban — Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday.
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Forums: r/anime_titties, r/nottheonion, and r/worldnews
| Wired: |
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy — The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.
More: Implicator.ai. X: @avischiffmann, @rachelmetz, @kyliebytes, @avischiffmann, @film_girl, @kyliebytes, and @withtenacity
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| Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic: |
US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired — Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
More: Implicator.ai and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @garys79 and @patrickhowelloneill.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/Economics, r/politics, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/jobs, r/antiwork, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Blockchain-based lender Figure upsizes its Nasdaq IPO and now plans to sell 31.5M shares priced between $20 and $22, aiming to raise up to ~$693M, up from $526M — Stablecoin issuer Figure Technologies on Tuesday increased the size and raised the price range of its initial public offering … | Ben Smith / Semafor: |
How David Sacks emerged as the most effective advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, using his tech expertise and All-In co-host status — The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus …
X: @davemcclure, @reedalbergotti, and @semaforben
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
The UAE's Institute of Foundation Models open sources its K2 Think model, trained with only ~2,000 AI chips and designed for math, coding, and science research — The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China's DeepSeek.Sponsor Posts
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